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A la recherche du temps perdu
(It's Ok to look at the grey pictures....) 

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Most of these photographs have been realised with a plastic china-made ‘toy-camera’. It’s lens produces unpredictable pictures with less resolution and sharpness, but with more emotional value.

These pictures reveal a special way of observing, ‘as seen from the corner of the eye’ or ‘ with eyes half closed’. They evoke souvenirs of childhood, dreams and a past that is still present.

The first (‘woman looks at building on Failaka island’)  and the  last picture of this series are about people who go back to the place where they once used to live (respectively the island Failaka in front of Kuwait, and a deserted mountain village in Yemen).

The fleeting fragments of time are not only the transitory moments in the past but also the awareness of 'here and now'....the last thought before falling asleep, the dreaming, the unconscious and the very first sensation of waking up, the time while enjoying the presence of things, the staring at the seawaves and the moment of surrendering to the water,  the time we spend looking at the world passing by… All these significant but nevertheless poorly appreciated parts of everyone's life make up the story of these series in progress!

It might take some time to complete... the digital photography is taking my focus away for a while, but this is poetry, and poetry will always come back to us.

   Excerpts from Arabic press articles from Kuwait journal...